Anyone else experience this? Is it the flkr photostream? Is there anyway to turn that off so I can see if the net speed picks up?

We have never seen that here. The only real moment flickr.pl could affect you is during the period when it is actually downloading its images... but that typically will be for at most a few minutes per day... and even then in our experience there is no noticeable affect on the internal network at all.

So I would 100% suggest that your problem is not flickr.pl related at all.

Hey another question I'm new to this (Linuxmce/kubuntu and linux in general); just got it to work (getting wireless to work on my airpace wlp-01 card was a real challenge). Normally kubuntu would have the adept package manager right? Has it been removed to protect linuxmce? Is there a add/remove program manager like adept, and If I download packages will it break LMCE? Sorry if this has been answered dozens of times already.

You'd have to check the dependancies.. but if LMCE's dependancies are ok for the app you want to install, I don't think you'll have a problem.You'll have to install it manually... or possibly with aptitude...

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When you install a hybrid, the core IS the first MD. Problem is that (afaik) both beryl (compiz) and the MD require access to the GPU hardware acceleration..I remember this was an issue in 1.0 when it was based on gnome.. back then, it was GDM and the MD fighting...

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Compiz is not just for Gnome, many people run it in KDE as well. Granted there are Gnome elements in it, but some are actually being stripped out.. and it really doesn't matter what libraries an app uses...

The problem, as you stated, is that Compiz requires 3d acceleration that can compete with other 3D things... of course that's rare and with Compiz-Fusion 0.6 it's actually very stable and can work with other GL apps nicely (it's been running for 2 weeks straight on my Gentoo box)... and when it doesn't you can set Compiz to turn off compositing for that app.

The bigger problem is that the new design of the MD UI will shift allot of the alpha-blending stuff to the new KDE WM, as stated by Paul... this will effectively kill all other WM options for LinuxMCE... this shift i all heartedly disagree with...

Edit: I forgot to mention that I did install Cedega and Crossover Office (two Wine variants) on my Core and they worked just fine.